157781 - Ability to edit From: field as free text (multiple identities per account)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 87987

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Carr]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

The from field is limited to a select menu of the accounts currently set up in
mozilla.  The abilty to enter any email account would be very helpful, as I have
multiple accounts I can send to from one domain, although I have my one POP
account that consolidates email. (e.g. [e-mail]; [e-mail];
[e-mail]; [e-mail]; etc.)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Compose a new email.
2.  Attempt to change the "From" email address to one that hasn't had an account
set up specifically for it.

Actual Results:  Nothing, you can't do it.

Expected Results:  
A free text field with a dropdown menu to change the free text to known values
would be perfect.  

An alternative option would be the abilty to add aliases to an account that
would also appear in the dropdown list.

Comment 1

[laurel]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44863 ***

Comment 2

[Alex Bishop]

I disagree; bug 87987 is closer.

Comment 3

[Alex Bishop]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87987 ***

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.